"There are some fundamentalist Christians who have decided that Allah is actually a pagan moon god who was worshiped on the Arabian peninsula before the rise of Islam."
This line cannot be factually accurate. Anyone who would make that make claim is clearly NOT interpreting the Bible literally. Muslims, Jews and Christians all share the same religious beginnings according to the Bible, so anyone claiming otherwise is not a true fundamentalist.
I said in the summer of 2000 that George W. Bush would be the worst thing that could possibly happen to Christianity and he has not let me down. George Bush has turned more people off to God than anything since perhaps the Inquisition. "Fundamentalism" is now a dirty word to most of the country.
But it doesn't have to be so. Much of what is called "fundamentalism" is no more a true reflection of the Bible than the teachings of Osama bin Laden are of the Koran. One can believe that the Bible is the literal Word of God, passed down through men and reject the hatred of the religious right. The Bible is not incompatible with science or liberalism.
There are far too many "preachers" who are nothing but GOP operatives pushing their political views from the pulpit, selectively quoting (or misquoting) the few passages in the Bible that reinforce their politcal views. This liberal fundamentalist firmly believes that a lot of the so-called "fundamentalist preachers" are going to be rather hot in the afterlife.
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